Patents by Inventor Eric C. Parker

Eric C. Parker has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 4944523
    Abstract: An end link for a stabilizer bar, a suspension system for an automobile, or for a motor truck, and a method for assembling the end link. A unitary spool has a tubular body and an annular flange at each end. Two annular washers conform in thickness and outer diameter to the flanges. Four annular grommets made of an elastomeric material conform in shape to each other, each having one end adapted to be snap-fitted over one of the flanges or over one of the washers. A bolt, which has a head and a shank with a threaded end, and a nut, which threads onto the threaded end, are used to assemble the end link from a pre-assembled grommet-spool-grommet subassembly, in which a respective one of the grommets is snap-fitted at its snap-fittable end over each of the flanges of the spool, and two pre-assembled grommet-washer subassemblies, in each of which a respective one of the grommets is snap-fitted at its snap-fittable end over a respective one of the washers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 1989
    Date of Patent: July 31, 1990
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works
    Inventors: Donald P. Hardy, Jr., Eric C. Parker